Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-03-10
Silly, Romantic NIaidens.

''You common folk know nothing
about alteration" cried a popular act
ress the other day. IF you want to
be incumbercd, swathcd about, as il
were, with undying devotion, you must
60 upon the stage. The alteration will
come mostly from young girls under
Is, it is true, but then what matter
where one gets ones sweets so that
they are an assured quality?
baltimore is particularly notable
for lovelorn maidens of this type, and
| have had as many as a dozen letters
day from them.
"What do they want? To see me, to
kiss me, to look at me! They send me
fruit and flowers, bon-bons and books,
and they come up here and positively
walk into my room. | very naturally
say, i don't know you. Who are youP
What do you want? For heavens sake
90 away positively turn them out.
Then, after time, there comes anoth-
er knock at the door. look out eau
tiously.
'Ah,' they say, my dear Mrs.,
just let us see you minute. O, do,
do, dor Then l say MOI very fatty.
We'll, then, let us just kiss your hand.
Please put your hand through the door.
and Wen kiss it and go right away
As I'm not particular about being
party to such idiocy persist in my re-
fusal. I'm sure can't imagine what
they mean by it. 1t makes me blush
for womankind. l wonder why their
mothers don't give them something to
keep them busy and prevent them from
making such horrible fools of them
selves. They become positively maud
lin for want of something to do or some
reasonable object to centre their sur
plus ardency upon. And then the inn
pudence of them!
1.-The other night came out of my
dressing-room after the evenings per-
formance, and found pale-faced girl
standing there, as lynX-eyed as a
Sheriff. As soon as she saw me she
ran up and caught hold of me and said:
%, please, Mrs. -, can't | ride home
with you in your carriageP'
"'Why, certainly not, replied. She
didn't seem at all abashcd. but looked
at me patronizingly and said
- Il just wanted to tell you felt a
sort of pity for you
/" Pity for me, gasped, my poor
little child there is 1000 in the house.
l think you had better go home and
pray to be like me- suppose the
ridiculous infant had conjured up the
idea that her artless sympathy would
be great beneficence.
Another annoyance which every
actress is subjected to is the treatment
of the mob which waits about the
theatre doors. English mobs have
some features which are more terrible
than American mobs. They are really
more dangerous but not so impudent
as American crowds.
'Once. when / got out of my car
riage in London to go into the theater
there was a very ill-natured mob about
the doors, and one hideous old woman
hit me violently across the back with
her umbrella and leered frightful
face up at me.
i" DO you think you're lovely wo-
man. she shrieked.
!" No. said /. i don't Do youp'
The crowd stopped grumbling and be-
gan laughing. It's easy enough to
deal with an English mob if one only
knows the way to do it.
"Here the crowds are mostly made
up Of young boys, and they are incor-
rigible and shout the most dreadful
things after one. There seems to be
no effort to stop them at all. 1t is like
eneountering shot and shell to go from
the theater TO the carriage"